Principal Cloud DevOps Engineer, CMS-Xumo

at  Comcast Corporation

Comcast brings together the best in media and technology. We drive innovation to create the world’s best entertainment and online experiences. As a Fortune 50 leader, we set the pace in a variety of innovative and fascinating businesses and create career opportunities across a wide range of locations and disciplines. We are at the forefront of change and move at an amazing pace, thanks to our remarkable people, who bring cutting-edge products and services to life for millions of customers every day. If you share in our passion for teamwork, our vision to revolutionize industries and our goal to lead the future in media and technology, we want you to fast-forward your career at Comcast.

JOB SUMMARY

Responsible for planning and designing new software and web applications. Analyzes, tests and assists with the integration of new applications. Oversees the documentation of all development activity. Trains non-technical personnel. Assists with tracking performance metrics. Provides guidance and support to other Engineers. Integrates knowledge of business and functional priorities. Acts as a key contributor in a complex and crucial environment. May lead teams or projects and shares expertise. Xumo, a joint venture between Comcast and Charter, was formed to develop and offer a next-generation streaming platform on a variety of branded 4K streaming devices and smart TVs. Powered by Comcast’s global technology platform, Xumo devices and services feature an entertainment experience designed to make it easy for consumers to find and enjoy their favorite streaming content through a world-class user interface and voice search, and for partners to meaningfully connect and engage with millions of consumers.

ADDITIONAL JOB SUMMARY/INFO:

We are seeking an experienced Principal DevOps Engineer to lead our DevOps technical direction and deliver our world class video streaming technology to all parts of the globe.
As a Principal DevOps Engineer for the Xumo Software Engineering Team, you’ll lead the DevOps for our in-house Video Content Management System (CMS). The role will require strong skills with managing microservice clusters by networking the services with multiple other microservice clusters, database, messaging components, CDN and API Gateways. To succeed in this role, it’s necessary to continuously face challenging issues, to provide clear technical solutions which satisfies the business requirement from product, operation, and engineering team. You will use various methods and data engineering technologies to manage more than one hundred cloud components on our cloud server platform. This job also requires familiarity with cloud server logging, security, and privacy protection to manage API and database accesses.
Position is office based in Irvine, CA- 4 days/week & 1 day/week, virtual

QUALIFICATIONS

• 8+ years’ experience of DevOps experience in live/service production environments
• 8+ years’ experience with Linux based environments (CentOS, OSX)
• 8+ years’ experience with Microservices (VM, Kubernetes, SQL, Message Queue)
• 5+ years’ experience with cloud-based services (Google Cloud, GKE, Cloud SQL)
• 5+ years’ experience with CI/CD (Jenkins, Terraform, Sonar Cloud, Puppet)
• 5+ years’ experience with networking experience (Load balancer, Firewalls, VPC, CDN)
• 5+ years’ experience with monitoring tools (Stackdriver, Nagios)
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in the field of Computer Science or Engineering
• Strong ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical members.
• Self-starter to able to work with minimal supervision for high quality output.

DESIRABLE EXPERIENCES

• Experience manipulating video contents (content metadata, caption file, video format file, etc.)
• Experience of Online Video Streaming (HLS, MPEG-Dash, RTP) with Cloud Server Platform (AWS or GCP), or video encoding
• Site reliability engineering experience

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s Degree
While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE

10 Years +

POSITION DUTIES:

Lead microservices operation in Google Cloud

• Manage deployments creating release plans with management team and developers.
• Manage CI/CD, to automate software builds, testing and deployment, using Jenkins etc.
• Manage GitHub repositories and branches that well work with CI/CD pipelines.
• Manage revisions and dependencies with all deployed environments.
• Manage IaC (Infrastructure as Code), implementing and maintain using tools like Terraform etc.
• Manage deployments across dev, staging and production environments.
• Manage security of DevOps pipelines with compliance standards

Optimizing server environment performance

• Monitor cloud allocated resources and performance.
• Maintain cloud resource, upgrade Kubernetes clusters and remove unused resources.
• Maintain monitoring dashboard and alert system, to detect unexpected behaviors.
• Manage server loggings and monitoring with Stackdriver, Cloud Watch, Nagios, and other loggings.
• Stay current with industry advancements and adoption into the organization.
• Establish DevOps engineer best practices.

Managing server incidents

• Reacting to reported alerts from the alerting system.
• Investigate incident symptoms using Stackdriver, Nagios and other data.
• Quickly assess impact to service and manage process to restore service.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collaborates with project stakeholders to identify product and technical requirements. Conducts analysis to determine integration needs.
• Designs new software and web applications, supports applications under development and customizes current applications. Develops software update processes for existing applications. Assists in the roll-out of software releases.
• Trains junior Software Development Engineers on internally developed software applications.
• Oversees the researching, writing and editing of documentation and technical requirements, including software designs, evaluation plans, test results, technical manuals and formal recommendations and reports.
• Keeps current with technological developments within the industry. Monitors and evaluates competitive applications and products. Reviews literature, patents and current practices relevant to the solution of assigned projects.
• Assists with technical leadership throughout the design process and assists in guidance with regards to practices, procedures and techniques. Serves as a guide mentor for Software Development Engineers.
• Assists in tracking and evaluating performance metrics. Ensures team delivers software on time, to specification and within budget.
• Works with Quality Assurance team to determine if applications fit specification and technical requirements. Tests and evaluates systems, subsystems and components.
• Acts as a technical contact and liaison for outside vendors and/or customers.
• Presents and defends architectural, design and technical choices to internal and external audiences.
• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
• Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) and overtime as necessary.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.